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* '''Sept 11 1997''': One year after being suggested the newsgroups alt.os.development and alt.os.assembly are created. NASM is recommended as the assembler of choice. [http://web.archive.org/web/19971009075251/http://www.net1.demon.co.uk/alt.os/ Archive of the original announcement and group descriptions]
* '''Dec 3 1998''': Stu George's OSFAQ is [http://groups.google.com/group/alt.os.development/browse_frm/thread/a511029156767157/43f0449f98fe5301?lnk=gst&rnum=107#43f0449f98fe5301 announced], hosted on a dialup account.
* '''Nov 14 1999''': Mega-tokyo.com is [http://groups.google.com/group/alt.os.development/browse_frm/thread/a6fa18b8d02f721d/c98172c2134ec840?lnk=gst&rnum=422#c98172c2134ec840 opened], with Stu George's OSFAQ hosted there.
* '''2000''': Forums are added to Mega-tokyo.com. For the next few years, these forums would grow to become the biggest OSDev forums. They would remain the biggest until the merger.
* '''Aug 2000''': The [http://www.osdev.org http://www.osdev.org] is created as a place to contain os development information.
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